15 Quotes About Writing In Case You Thought About Quitting Today

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There are some days when the writing is too difficult and we think about quitting.

If you're thinking about quitting for the day, shutting down your computer taking a break, and getting back to it the next day then by all means continue.

But if you're thinking of deleting that manuscript and giving up writing for good - then you need to read what a few others think about writing.

I hope they can change your mind.

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

― Toni Morrison

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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

― Ernest Hemingway

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"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

― Madeleine L'Engle

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"We live and breathe words. …. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt - I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted - and then I realized that truly I just wanted you."

― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

― W. Somerset Maugham

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"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

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"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."

― Neil Gaiman

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"You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."

― Ray Bradbury

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"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."

― Neil Gaiman

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"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."

― Annie Proulx

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"Make up a story… For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul."

― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

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"Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose…"

― Rainer Maria Rilke

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"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

 - Franz Kafka

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Writing will not always be easy. Even the most well-known authors talk to us about its ups and downs.

In the end, it will be worth it.

Don't give up.

With love,

B.K. xo xo

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